Talk Story: Chrissie Wellington

Time for another edition of Talk Story with Bob Babbitt. I’m sharing some of my favorite stories that I’ve collected from my years in the wonderful world of endurance sports.This week I share an article I wrote about the great Chrissie Wellington after she had won three Ironman World Championship titles. It’s a look at what made her so special, a lot of which had to do with how she would spend her off season:

….This was the way the woman who has never been beaten at the Ironman distance, the now three-time defending Ironman World Champion, spent her ‘vacation.’ What started as a jeep track became sand and then basically petered out to no trail at all. “We were bushwhacking over glaciers with 65 pounds in our panniers,” continues Wellington. “There were times we averaged only two kilometers per hour for ten straight hours. We weren’t covering a lot of ground.”